Preeja Sreedharan
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| Nationality | India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 March 1982 Idukki, Kerala, India |
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| Spouse(s) | Dr. Deepak Gopinath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10,000 metres, 5000 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Preeja Sreedharan (born 13 March 1982 at Mullakkanam,Idukki Kerala) is an Indian long-distance runner.
Career
She won gold medal in the 10,000 metres event and silver in 5000 metres at the Guangzhou Asian Games. She holds Indian national record for both 5000 and 10,000 metres.
At the 2006 Asian Games she finished fifth in both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres. At the 2007 Asian Championships at Amman she won the silver medal in the 10,000 metres. She qualified for the Beijing Olympics in June 2008 after achieving a B qualifying mark for the Games and then finished twenty-fifth in the Olympic 10,000 metres.
Her personal best for the 10,000 metres is 31:50:28 minutes in Guangzhou Asian Games. This is the current Indian national record.[1]
Preeja was selected as Manorama Newsmaker of the year 2010. The selection was done through an online SMS voting from public. The finalists with Preeja were, Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, Njhanpeedam winner and famous Malayalam poet ONV Kurup and famous politician, and financial minister K. M. Mani.[2] On 22 Nov 2014, Sreedharan emerged the winner among the Indian women athletes taking part in the annual Delhi Half Marathon.
She received the Arjuna Award for Athletics in 2011.
Personal life
Preeja was born to Sreedharan and Remani in Idukki. She has an elder brother Pradeep and an elder sister Preethy.[3] She graduated from Alphonsa College, Pala. Preeja is married to Dr. Deepak Gopinath on 11 November 2012 at Palakkad. Preeja is now working as Superintendent in Railway Division, Palakkad.
References
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- ↑ http://www.mangalam.com/women/interview/145115
External links
- Preeja Sreedharan profile at IAAF
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Sportswomen from Kerala
- Indian long-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Female long-distance runners
- Indian sportswomen
- Commonwealth Games competitors for India
- Asian Games competitors for India
- People from Idukki district
